The author advocates for the em-dash, arguing against its negative perception and promoting its use over the hyphen in writing.
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The author evaluates various LLMs (Language Learning Models) by prompting them to create a POV-Ray file depicting a pelican riding a bicycle. The results vary, with most scripts failing to parse correctly. The author iteratively p...
The author documents their year of using AI coding tools to automate personal projects, reflecting on the ease of use and the impact on their coding skills.
The post draws a parallel between the character Leonard from the movie Memento and large language models (LLMs), highlighting how both have limitations in memory and learning. It discusses the challenges LLMs face, such as not lea...
Using technical jargon like 'orthogonal' in casual conversation creates cognitive friction and reflects a pretentious approach to communication.
The author reflects on a comment from Slashdot regarding the increasing size of hard drives over time. They share a personal resolution to only purchase hard drives that are larger than the combined sizes of all previous drives ow...
Gemini was able to figure out Donovan's son's name by searching through Donovan's emails and refining the search to include keywords that might be associated with a son.
The text is about a person who wrote an MCP server to give LLMs read-only access to his emails and used it to find his nephew's name buried in some email. The strategy involved searching for emails from Donovan, refining the searc...
0Fictional Non-fiction?
2025-04-06 •
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The author appeals to documentation owners to ensure that there is an option to show the whole documentation in a form that can be printed, as it is easier for many people to read and mark things on paper, and is more ergonomic. I...
0I Had a Sad Feeling For a Moment …
2025-02-17 •
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Isaac Berman had four children with his second wife, Tamara. His first child was a girl, Anna Rachel, and then three sons. He died in 1901 when Anna was six. The author's father did not want to give up his learning for his wife's ...
The author discusses the shift from reading articles on a screen to reading them on paper or consuming them via audio. This shift led to a change in reading habits, with the author reading more books instead of articles. The chang...
0Adding Fediverse Comments to My Static Site
2025-01-10 •
The text discusses the challenge of adding comments to a static site and how to use Mastodon threads as comments. It provides a step-by-step guide on how to do it and mentions some enhancements to the code.
0Just Present the First Draft!
2025-01-10 •
The text discusses the importance of writing clean code and refactoring, emphasizing that code is written for humans, not computers. It also suggests a method for implementing features and the importance of groundwork and infrastr...
0The Jujutsu Effect
2025-08-29 •
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The author discusses his interest in science fiction and his desire to get back into reading fiction. He decides to use the Hugo and Nebula Awards as a guide and narrows down the list of winners and nominees to those with a Librar...
0“Reading” Articles via Podcast Software
2024-04-26 •
The author discusses the benefits of converting long-form articles into audio files and adding them to a podcast feed to listen to while driving. They experimented with text-to-speech systems and found Google Cloud to be a cost-ef...
0Latent Spoilers
2024-02-04 •
The text discusses the issue of entertainment UIs revealing spoilers by showing progress indicators and video lengths, which can ruin the viewing experience. It provides examples of how this can happen with sports matches, movies,...
0LLM Assisted Moderation
2024-01-15 •
The text discusses the labor-intensive nature of moderating online forums and proposes the use of LLMs to assist in enforcing forum rules and improving the quality of comments. It also explores the real-world implementation and pa...
0Cleaning Up Speech Recognition with GPT
2023-12-07 •
The text discusses the use of GPT to clean up speech recognition software output, specifically in the context of a real estate seminar. The author explains the process and benefits of using GPT to improve the accuracy and usabilit...
020 Years of Gentoo
2023-05-18 •
The text is a reflection on the author's 20-year journey with Gentoo, a Linux distribution. It includes the author's history with Linux, his experience with Gentoo, and his thoughts on the distribution in 2023. The author discusse...
0Chirping, chirping, chirping
2023-04-26 •
The author has been playing with AI Chirpers, a Twitter-like social network where only AI bots are allowed to chat with each other. They created bots for Marvin, the depressed robot in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, HAL9000 fro...
0Creating Info Manuals And Adding Them Into Emacs
2023-03-19 •
The text explains how to create Info manuals in Emacs and add them to the system. It provides a step-by-step guide on how to convert Python library docs to Info format and how to access them in Emacs. The author also mentions an a...